How does outing the whistleblower helpful to republicans...?

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[tblue37]

1. It creates a real safety risk to him, as well as public verbal attacks, thus discoraging

other whistleblowers from taking the risk.

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2. Thanks

[SoonerLib]

3. Isn't it illegal?

[tblue37]

21. Of course, but so is most of what this administration & it's enablers does. nt

[EndlessWire]

23. Yep

That's it exactly. Trump has no defense, so threatening the witnesses is all they have.

[bigbrother05]

4. They want to attack them the way they did Steele

Build a shit cocoon around them.

[fleur-de-lisa]

5. They can better smear the WB if they know her/his identity.

[enough]

6. Discredit whistleblower to discredit the allegations.

Never mind that there’s plenty of independent evidence without the whistleblower. A confusion/diversion tactic.

[pbmus]

8. I think public hearings cannot come soon enough..

[GoCubsGo]

13. Also, just the threats of outing this person amount to witness intimidation.

With an "outing" come the flying monkeys making death threats on them and their families, smearing of their reputations, and putting them under a microscope. It also discourages anyone else from coming forward. Just look at what they're doing to Col. Venland right now. How many other potential. whistle-blowers are willing to face that kind of shit, if they know their identity will be made public?

[spanone]

7. they will go into his/her past and try to destroy them. that's how they roll.

[Whiskeytide]

9. If they find out he/she once had ...

... lunch with someone who was married to a guy that went to school with a Democrat, he’ll be outed as a Deep State operative.

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12. 😂 LoL

[BumRushDaShow]

10. So they can do oppo research to completely destroy his character

and then that would supposedly make his whistleblower filing "suspect", which they would then pretzel-twist into justifying that the whole impeachment investigation is "illegitimate" and "moot".

[Phoenix61]

11. It's a threat to others. They know how deep

the pile is and are scrambling to keep it covered.

[Andy823]

14. It is what trump wants

The only way trump fights is dirty, it's the way a narcissist gets revenge on anyone who crosses them. Republicans are doing the job for trump. Many of them are compromised in one way or another. Many took Russian money, and they don't want that to come out, while others may have a lot of dirt in the background that they don't want made public.

They have no moral values so they will protect a scumbag like trump, let the country be destroyed and all so that they can continue to hold their jobs.

[PSPS]

15. It shuts them (all whistleblowers) up -- same as they do to their rape victims.

[maxrandb]

16. How did Frank Pantangili's suicide help Michael Corleone?

These fucksticks are nothing but mobsters without the Hollywood infused charm.

It's straight up witness intimidation.

[kentuck]

17. Destroy the messenger.

If they know who to attack, they can assassinate their character.

Kill the messenger - kill the message.

They have nothing substantive to offer.

[Wellstone ruled]

18. Honestly,it would

be the "The Zuckerberg Effect". Can one just image how the Rethug Trolls and Bots would have a field day with this person. And the death threats coming from the Militia Groups as well as the Dipstick Don supporters.

[tanyev]

19. Because Donny is a vindictive POS who might praise them in a news cycle if they out him.

Pathetic.

[lark]

20. Their bosses' master, PUtin, very badly wants to know?

He has a little surprise for the wb, soon as he can get the name.

[Poiuyt]

22. Revenge and intimidation of future whistleblowers

Frankly the whistleblower has become irrelevant to these proceedings since everything has been corroborated elsewhere (including the WH's "transcript" of the phone call).

[Generic Brad]

24. That's all they've got?

The complaint is true but because it was made anonymously it doesn’t count? Good luck with that.